Nik wants into all your wallets NOW :)

[Jonathan Smith]

With the SRS live album he seemed to have got somewhere but maybe there wad
not enough support to keep it going....

Bedouin seemed like it might do something, although I prefer his later
albums. They are not that consistent. Maybe there isn't too much market for
space rock? Shame, I am sure the world needs more of it :〉
On 25 Aug 2013 10:58, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:

> On 24 Aug 2013, at 21:41 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Better to ignore it all and focus on the new stuff.
> > Alan is doing a second *Al Chemical* album-- maybe what he wants to
> > do.  Excellent  in my book but probably not a money spinner.
>
> IMO, Alan needs if not a stable band around him, at least some stable
> songwriting partners.  Al's playing is great, and he is capable of writing
> some absolute corkers -- but I don't think he comes out with enough of
> those corkers, fast enough, to just blow everyone's and their dog's minds
> often enough.  Maybe it doesn't really matter, since the music industry is
> so screwed up these days (I mean, more than ever) any way, but I always
> feel like his efforts end up too diffused: Bedouin somehow wobbled around
> for years in the '90s, straight through the whole original stoner rock
> trend (which they totally should have exploited) without ever producing
> very much. Gunslinger is sort of on again, off again, with variant lineups.
> His solo stuff is similar. Then there are his cover bands, like the
> Motorhead thing and the Psych Warlords; I guess those pay the bills (or why
> do them?) but you can put me down as another person who wants to hear
> something new.  His guesting on the last Pre-!
>  Med album generated some fantastic playing, but he was really just a
> pinch-hitter there.  Oh well!
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>